John Templeton Quotes
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Love is a complicated emotion because you can learn something or hear something that goes against what you have come to know personally. It can be very challenging to what you believe.
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The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
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It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
